Within the limits of the mind

About the book: Jean Améry is considered one of the important voices who experienced the Holocaust and some Nazi concentration camps and survived. Therefore, his writings bear the mark of vivid pain accompanied by deep resentment and anger towards those atrocities committed in those camps, where humans were turned into what he describes as resembling, like, insects. He finds in the phrase "What happened, happened," which is often repeated as a moral justification to victims, a phrase that is "as much as it is completely hostile to morality and reason." For him, it is illogical and meaningless "to demand objectivity in debate with the executioners, and with those who helped them, and with those who stood silent." Silence towards the atrocities committed against humans makes it impossible to trust the concepts presented under the guise of morality, and again under the guise of thought. Améry discusses the issue of tolerance and reconciliation, and the nature and reasons for the resentment that the survivor victim feels towards the executioner, as he recalls the atrocities of the Nazis in concentration camps. Therefore, he rejected calls for forgiveness, and he goes further to demand that those who committed massacres and atrocities against humans stand before justice and receive their punishment. Author's name: Jean Améry Translation: Qahthan Jassim Print date: 2022 First edition number: First